09:00 -10:00

10:00 -10:30

10:30 -11:00

11:00 -12:30

Trude Renwick Omri Livne

Veda Popovici Rebecca Dolgoy

Jessica Carriere Paul Farber

12:30 -13:30

WHOSE STREETS?! Occupying Spaces of Culture

Spatiu Commun: A practice for re-inventing community: Spatiu Comun (Romanian: common space) is a workspace model that emerged in the context of Bucharest urban space. It is a physical space reclaimed inside the city to be modeled through a community. Structurally political, this practice builds an alternative to actual configurations of power relations assigned to public/private spaces.

From 'Protest to Program': The political re-branding of exclusion and disadvantage reviews the transnationalism of targeted neighbourhood improvement policies – or ‘place-based’ policies – as they are constructed in both the UK and Toronto. Focusing on the discourse and rhetoric of ‘place-based’ policies, the question of whether these ‘local’ policies are in fact global will be explored.

Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

OCCUPY SPACE

WORKSHOP: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

U-BAHN: ORANIENBURGER TOR / ROSENTHALER PLZ

Occupy BB7 INTRODUCTION + WELCOME

THURSDAY June 28 MORNNING OCCUPY BERLIN BIENNALE S-Bahn: Oranienburger Straße

Breakfast + Coffee

DEMO-STYLE Lunch provided by the ABFALLKÜCHE

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

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WE THE PEOPLE: Space and Community

The Muang and the Mall: Publics, Occupation and Pulsating Form in Bangkok's Siam's Square interprets event as spatial as well as cultural and temporal, examining the question: How can form and its relationship with people become a means to better understand spaces of occupation relative to everyday life and the history of the city?

In Thinking From a Governmental Office to an Art Space I will consider the multifaceted relationship between money, global power and art, by proposing to occupy a governmental building in Jerusalem and turn it into an art space with the assistance of a Austrian insurance firm.

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One Space, Multiple Bodies: Occupation and Berlin's Neues Museum explores the multiplicity of ways in which occupation plays out in the Neues Museum, I hope to show how multiple pasts may occupy the same space, how we occupy space and how space occupies us, as well as how we use and are used by the museum.

Pieces of History will address the displacement of pieces of the former Berlin Wall in U.S. public spaces and memorial contexts.

Igor + TBA (Occupy BB7)

Intro on behalf of the curators of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Opening RemarksJocelyn Parr + Samara ChadwickJoanna Warsza + SANDRA TEITGE

OCCUPY SPACE

Workshop on direct democracy, handsignals, and horizontalism

KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

13:30 -14:15

Aylwyn Walsh Myrto Tsilimpounidi

14:15 -15:45

Tiago Machado Romain Tiquet

Vinicius Spricigo

15:45 -16:15

16:15 -17:30

Carolyn Kraus H. James Gilmore

MerRill Cole

Marilee Rust

ALEX CASPER CLINE

17:30+

19:30 -23:00

Object, Occupation, Obstruction (uses the writings of Eriugena, Boym and Claire Fontaine to) explore[s] how objects might profane space and identification with intricate barricades of joy and silence.

Coffee BREAK

Gabriel Zacarias

SHITISFUCKEDUPANDBULLSHIT: A short discourse on the consequences of the separation of power and politicsFollowed by a reception on the ICI rooftop and a screening of the Euro 2012 Semi Final.

Men at Work: Voices from Detroit's Underground Economy. Set in America’s most segregated city, where black men are disproportionally the targets of unemployment and incarceration, this documentary film profiles the creative and resourceful people who are redefining the notion of occupation during a time of economic turmoil.

60 MINUTE SCREENING FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SIMON CRITCHLEY

Mathew Staunton

‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of wor(l)ds’ is an anarchic conversation between a visual/urban sociologist and a theatre maker and performance studies scholar.

ARTWIKI ARCHIVE Histories of Senegal and Ireland

Against Queer Apartheid articulates and promotes occupy from a queer theory perspective that would, in Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s terminology, forge equivalences between different progressive political aspirations, breaking down the artificially constructed barriers that keep people from seeing and acting on their commonalities and shared concerns.

Strategies for occupying spaces: BMPT, Daniel Buren and the work In Situ Our objective is to demonstrate how the “Manifestations,1967” formulated by the BMPT intended to be a political demarche, not one of representation but one of presentation of art at the very moment (time and place) of its exposition, and how these experiences will lead Daniel Buren to formulate his concept of a "work in situ".

Responses to the void: occupy the Biennial takes the relation between the taggers’ radical response to the ‘void’ used as aesthetic or institutional-critical strategy by the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial’s curators in 2007 and the heavy-handed repression dealt by the Biennial Foundation.

May 68 as negation and prelude will attempt to draw the historical difference between current occupational movements and the experience of the French revolt of may 68, from the perspective of the situationist’s radical critique of capitalist society.

FROM THE MUSEUM TO THE STREET AND BACK AGAIN

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: MEN AT WORK GENDER STRIKE

Occupying Bodies, (Occupy)ing Gender will address the proliferation ofnarratives that marginalize queer identities within the YouTube Trans*masculine community and interrogates not only the reproduction of masculinity, but also the reification of gender binaries.

ASAMBLEA: GENERAL ASSEMBLYOCCUPY SPACE

THURSDAY June 28 AFTERNOON

PERFORMANCEOCCUPY SPACE

OCCUPY BERLIN BIENNALE

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY

ICI BERLIN INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY (Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8)

Enfermement colonial et travail forcé : résistance(s) de la main d'oeuvre pénale au Sénégal (1936-56) will focus on a particular case of forced labour: the mandatory penal worker. The main issue of this paper will be the question of insubordination and strategies of resistance against a coercive institution. EN FRANÇAIS. With simultaneous translation, if needed.

Occupying Irish History: Towards a Narrative of State-Sanctioned Child Abuse in Ireland During this lively and provocative paper Staunton will invade and occupy some of the emptiest spaces of Irish history. Combining historical research and testimony with artistic responses to abuse, he will foreground the voices of child abuse survivors and formulate strategies for navigating around the booby-traps and gaps in official archives.

9:00 -10:00

10:00-11:30

Aurore Fauret Catrinel Popa

Maria Byck Christy Wampole

Antonia Levy Giovanna Laterza

11:30 -12:30

Emma DavenportSophie Nathan

12:30 -13:30

Between homo legens and homo fictus (notes on the occupation of reader in a totalitarian state) intends to analyse two opposite dimensions of reading: on the one hand its public meaning, fabricated by propaganda; on the other hand the subversive dimension of reading (belonging, this time, to the private sphere).

The Essayification of Everything: The concept of an attempt or a try is at the heart of the essay’s essential meaning as a literary genre. This analysis illustrates the omnipresence of the phenomenon of essayism and predicts the likely trajectory of this mode of thought and being in the decades to come.

Redefining Literary Studies Through Occupation: What do we actually understand by the noun “Occupation“? A travel through etymology to discover the possible semantic domains linked to occupation and their potential connections with the field of humanities.

MY ART IS MY PROTEST: Creative ResistanceARTWIKI ARCHIVE

Breakfast+CoffeeBreakfast+Coffee

FRIDAY June 29 MORNING

U-BAHN: ORANIENBURGER TOR / ROSENTHALER PLZ

OCCUPY THEORY: Literally

PERFORMANCEOCCUPY SPACE

Occuprint and the OWS Screenprinting Guild: Making Art and then a Living in the Times of Occupation will introduce two groups within Occupy Wall Street – Occuprint and the Screenprinting Guild – using them as an example to examine critically the interrelation of political art, the Occupy movement and the politics of cultural production.

Artist as Occupation: This performance piece re-enacts an interview that has never and may never come to pass. Using Lucky Me, a simulacra of artist as occupation, the piece explores our constant pre-occupation with nostalgia, idealism and fantasy, using tropes of success to reveal how work as occupation is full of expectation, failure and regret.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art S-Bahn: Oranienburger Straße

OCCUPY BERLIN BIENNALE

Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

DEMO-STYLE Lunch provided by the ABFALLKÜCHE

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITYTiny Tents: Perpetuating the Occupy Movement through Miniature Art: In late 2011, as Occupy’s tent cities faced evictions, Occupy Boston initiated the deployment of tiny protest camps in public spaces. This paper will examine these small occupations, which have spread around the world, in terms of micro-politics and artistic resistance.

Intangible Boundaries: Reclaiming the Cultural Commons: OWS has renewed a sense of political urgency within the art world. Our culture is preserved, protected, alienated, commodified and professionalized by “public” institutions. Power, established in the market-driven economy, manipulates value and controls exchange. Through public space interventions OWS artists begin to experiment with the boundaries created by this system and reclaim the cultural commons.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

13:30 -15:00

Boaz Levin Jacob Blumenfeld

Amr Ahmed Jens Koed Madsen Ana Baeza Ruiz

Abdollah Karimzadeh

Paul Kneale

15:00-15:30

15:30 -17:00

Brice Bourdet

Ryan JefFEry

Sergio Racanati

17:00 -18:30

19:00 -21:00

The city and the political is an open class taking place at The Public School Berlin, for Preoccupied Conference they shall accommodate the space of the KW and operate as usual. Discussing a text and opening up a dialogue on a specific theme, the workshop shall be open to all, and the text announced four days prior.

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The physical presence and deliberative potential of occupying a public sphere: Occupy LSX as a case study deals with two main perspectives: A description of the physical occupation of a public sphere and an investigation of the psychology of reasoning underlying persuasion

The 'Occupied' studio at the intersection of creative renewal: In addition to this first-hand historical account, this paper will consider how the “Occupy Slade” event and it’s related protests throughout the UK also had the effect of occupying (art) discourse. In the wake of the protests, a largely apolitical class of London art students had been motivated to “do something”. What exactly that “something” was would be another matter.

An open discussion / debate in the round. Details to TBA.

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Art, Media, and the Egyptian Revolution: Of the many factors that worked to detonate the Egyptian Revolution, this paper analyses how art helped lead to the collapse of the regime and moral values, by instigating a sentiment of rejection in the majority of Egyptian society.

Regarding the Revolutions of Others: A 10 minute video which questions the nature of the relation between revolutions and their on-lookers. By way of juxtaposing found footage, text captions and screenshots the spectator/investigator is conjured and bracketed: spectral - both present and absent - a witness, activist and/or voyeur.

GIVE A DAMN: Analyses of the Occupy Revolution

7TH BERLIN BIENNALE FOR CONTEMPORARY POLITICS. IN BETWEEN

You Are Here Photo Projection refers to the words usually found next to a big red spot on an urban map, which are supposed to assure that you know exactly where you are in the city. Sometimes though, maps are so incomprehensible that they could just as well say “You are lost here”.

The Practice of Living is a fictional short film about house squatting in the United States during and after the 2008 economic crisis. Formally inspired by Jaques Tati’s Mon Oncle, this film will be compared with a scene from Tati’s 1958 classic to examine the representation of occupation in cinema.

Occupation of Minds and Hearts: A Re-Reading of Occupy Wall Street Movement through the Lens of Even Zohar’s Polysystem Theory sheds light on “Occupy Wall Street” from translation perspective, likening the management of the global island to Even Zohar’s theory of polysystem and comparing the binary of occupier/ occupied to that of authorship/ translation and the way they compete to occupy centrality in the global polysystem.

RESILIENT is a art project and consisting of three videos and a performance-action, resulting from the relationship between the artists and a collective of anarchist activists Le Macerie Baracche Ribelli in the region of Puglia (Southern Italy).

EVENT ORGANISED BY THE BERLIN BIENNALE AND KRYTYKA POLITYCZNADISCUSSION AND MUSIC-ACTION WITH KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA This open meeting and discussion considers the effects of the initiatives and actions conducted throughout the long-term process of the development of the Berlin Biennale and the duration of the exhibition. Reflecting on the practices of combining artistic and political tools that the Biennale introduced, where does this process lead us and what are the next steps?

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FRIDAY June 29 AFTERNOON OCCUPY BERLIN BIENNALE

BLACK BOX

DISCUSSION IN THE ROUND

VIDEO ART: TOUR OF PROJECTIONS CLASS: THE CITY AND THE POLITICALCoFFEE Break

More information on previous classes and texts can be found here: http://berlin.thepublicschool.org/class/3909

Occupation is the first act of revolution; it then becomes an obstacle which the revolution has to overcome will highlight the limits of struggle in the current moment, and what such limits reveal for the meaning of revolution.

KEITHSTRASSE 10 10787 BERLIN U-BAHN: WITTENBERGPLATZ

19:00 -20:30

20:30 -00:00

What sort of occupation is art? Why are our lives occupied and exploited by and even as art while being evacuated of labour, wages and leisure? What sort of different occupations are there in the artfield? How does the militarisation of everyday life and information technologies reflect within these occupations? What are the traces of military occupation, intensified surveillance and financial instability within the internal structures of the artfield itself? (as opposed to the white cube display of political scenarios as cheap ready mades).

IMPORT PROJECTS: Keithstraße 10.

IMPORT PROJECTS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: HITO STEYERLART AS OCCUPATION 2.0

Conference Closing PARTY

SATURDAY JUNE 30

KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: Auguststraße 69. ICI BERLIN INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY

THE PREOCCUPIED CONFERENCE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT ALL OUR

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